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- p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to
“sweep the Germans from the sky…
- p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with
the ambitious idens of air power which…
- p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was
never equipped during…
- p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are
you in the Army or the Corps…
- p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard
anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
- p. 69 …But one axiom,
with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never-
theless left an open question as to how…
- p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300
aircraft a month. The pattern of…
- p. 122 …the German Air Force, the
Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in
the…
- p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French
factories, the force had never been employed in a…
- p. 140 …into
a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands
of our own forces…
- p. 150 …Long-term needs
of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities
never…
- p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had
never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
- p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown
heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
- p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never-
theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
- p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other
bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
- p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points
have never been satisfactorily explained.
T h e general pattern…
- p. 277 …motors, sole-
noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit-
less search…
- p. 288 …planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the accepted grand…
- p. 303 …the principal features of the plan
were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
- p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was
never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
- p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never
able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
- p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never
returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
- p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining
pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
- p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from
Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
- p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never
before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
- p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been
accomplished, yet now it…
- p. 509 …Island, in the
Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May
the two…
- p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the
aircrews, for on the operational level…
- p. 524 …handicaps under which
AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
- p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that
proper observance of economy of force would never…
- p. 531 …Crews which had
previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these
weapons into…
- p. 544 …But the Japanese never at
any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
- p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into
All told, the record…
- p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com-
mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
- p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the
CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
- p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force
never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
- p. 614 …that reason deserving a high
priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
- p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign-
ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
- p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never
below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
- p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England,
nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
- p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never
before equaled by the military forces of two…
- p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several
had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
P E A R L H A R B O R A N D C L A R K F I E L D
watch officer at the naval base and had begun a methodical search of
the restricted area. T h e six radar detector stations of the Hawaiian
Interceptor Command had been in operation since 0400; at 0700 they
reached the prescribed limit of their regular morning alert. O n this
occasion, however, the Opana station at Kahuku Point remained open
to provide additional instruction for one of the operators. At 0 7 0 2 the
station plotted a group of airplanes at approximately I 3 0 miles, bear-
ing 0” to 3 ” east of north. This fact was reported by telephone to
the information center about fifteen minutes later. Because of the
expected arrival of B - 1 7 ’ ~from the mainland and the probability of
search operations by US. naval aircraft, an Air Corps officer who
was on duty at this time “solely for training and observation” did not
consider it necessary to take any a ~ t i o n . ~Meanwhile the Opana sta-
tion had tracked the planes toward Oahu and had lost them. T w o
opportunities for an eleventh-hour reprieve had been forfeited.
At 0755 single-engine planes were observed southeast of the
Hickam Field hangar line heading for Pearl Harbor. Almost simul-
taneously the naval base and Hickam Field came under attack.
For approximately thirty minutes units of the Pacific Fleet were
subjected to the savage blows of wave after wave of enemy planes.
It is impossible to determine precisely the sequence of the enemy’s
actions; they included eight attacks delivered by some thirty dive
bombers, low-altitude attacks by more than twenty torpedo planes
sweeping across the harbor in four waves, and level bombing from
about 10,000 feet by perhaps fifteen aircraft. Then came a quarter-
hour of comparative quiet. At 0840 horizontal and dive bombers re-
newed the attack. This action lasted about an hour.‘ At its end the
Navy had suffered a crushing blow.
T h e battleship force had been most heavily hit. T h e Arizona, Cali-
fornia, and West Virginia had been sunk, the Oklahoma capsized, the
Nevada severely damaged, and three others damaged. Three cruisers,
three destroyers, and a seaplane tender had received damages of
varying degrees of severity; a mine layer and a target ship had been
sunk. Fortunately no carrier was in port. Naval and naval air installa-
tions had been seriously hurt. Of approximately 169 naval aircraft in
the Oahu area, 87 were destroyed. Tragically heavy too were losses
in Navy 2nd Marine Corps personnel, with 2,086 officers and men
killed or fatally wounded and an additional 749 wounded.‘
Although the primary purpose of the enemy had been to cripple
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